Fastening means.



PATENTBD DEG. 10,1907.

A. L. WHITE. FASTENING MEANS.

APPLICATION FILED APB-9,1966.

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FASTENING MEANS.

- Specification of Letters Patent.

Eatented Dec. 10, 1907.

Application filed April 9- 1906. Serial No. 310.805.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AMOS L. WHITE, a citizen of-the United States, residing at Lexington, in the county of Sanilac and State of Michigan, have invented new and useful Improvements in Fastening Means, of which the A further object of the invention is to pr'o vide a fastener of the class described, embodying resilient fingers of improved form for engaging and retaining the ends of lacing cords and to be attached to shoes or similar articles of apparel.

With these and other objects in view the invention comprises certain novel constructions, combinations and arrangements of parts, aswill be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

Inthe drawin s :Figure 1 is a perspective view of a shoe with the improved fastener associated therewith. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the fastener disconnected from a lacing device; Fig. 3 is anenlarged perspective view of the device applied to a part of a shoe.

' Fig. 4 is an end view of the fastener with lace ap lied.

ike characters of reference designate corre sponding parts throughout the several views. The fastener forming the subject-matter of this application is adapted for application to anyusual article of apparel, customarily laced as theshoe shown at 1. In its preferred embodiment the fastener comprises a plate 2 'slitted longitudinally throughout a portion of its length, to form three fingers, 3, 4 and 5.

' The plate 2 is secured to the garment in any approved manner, as by the rivets 6 and 7 and the fingers 3 and 4 are so curved as to o. iform to the shape of the garment and bear finger 5 is bent backwardly upon the plate 2 tionedto engage any usual lace as the cord 8. As illustrating the preferred manner of Fig. l, is shown as hooked over the rearwardly extending finger 5 andbrought forward and slipped beneath the'resilient finger 4;. Used in the manner described the finger 3 is idle and is employed only when the fastener is used upon the opposite side of the garment and in reversed'position;

illustrated in Fig. 1, is the preferred manner, it is to be understood that the improved fastener may beemployed in any other improved manner and to engage the lace otherwise than as shown.

What I claim is In a lace fastener, the combination with a shoe up er, of a plate having three fingers formed y two parallel cutsprojected from one side partly across said plate, and with the two outer fingers bent to engage the upper adjacent their ends and spaced from the u per intermediate their lengths, and with t e middle finger bent backwardly and. curved toward the plate adjacent its end, and curved and spaced from the plate intermediate its length.

in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' AMOS L. WHITE. Witnesses:

GEORGE E. BEAQH, RUDOLPH PAPST, Jr;

resiliently upon the surface thereof. The

to form a rearwardly opening hook propora In testimony whereof I affix my signature using the improved fastener, the lace 8, in

While the manner of using the fastener 

